"portray" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

portray verbo

portray + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 61
portray a David Bailey • portray people • portray the character • portray a woman • portray the role • ...
verbo + portray
Kolokacji: 8
seek to portray • try to portray • want to portray • used to portray • begin portraying • ...
portray + preposición
Kolokacji: 26
portrayed by • portray in • portray on • portray with • portray to • ...
portray + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 48
accurately portray • frequently portrayed • originally portrayed • generally portrayed • later portray • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) originally, initially
Kolokacji: 2
(5) commonly, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) unfairly, wrongly, correctly
Kolokacji: 3
(10) clearly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2
1. famously portrayed = doskonale przedstawiony famously portrayed
2. brilliantly portrayed = błyskotliwie przedstawić brilliantly portrayed
  • The wounds inflicted on the father, brilliantly portrayed in "Last Dance" as a man of intense and irrational defensiveness, leave their scars on the son.
  • And his narcissistic, paranoid psyche is brilliantly portrayed.
  • Herod, brilliantly portrayed by Alan Stanford as a flabby epicene in tails and a white silk scarf, might have been Wilde himself in the last stages of decline.
  • Attached at the lower chest by a thick band of elastic-looking flesh that they flash at audiences with gleeful malevolence, the Howe brothers are brilliantly portrayed by the real-life identical (but not conjoined) twin brothers Harry and Luke Treadaway, who play their own instruments.
  • Warburg was brilliantly portrayed by José Luis Blondet, a former actor who is Dia's director of education.
  • The older Jean and Bernard are portrayed brilliantly by Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Lionel Jeffries, she patiently trying to have a good vacation, he sourly determined to ruin everything.
  • The Sunday Telegraph praised it as a "memorable debut": "the atmosphere of paranoia and paralysing fear is brilliantly portrayed and unremittingly grim".
  • This is painfully and brilliantly portrayed by Michael Fassbender's character, Brandon, in Shame.
  • As dramatized from the book by Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard lawyer who defended him and is brilliantly portrayed by Ron Silver, the story is fascinating and still baffling.

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